Mental Health Final EXAM 2024/QUESTIONS
WITH CORRECT DETAILED AND VERIFIED
ANSWERS/A+ GRADE
1). Milieu therapy
Ans: Milieu refers to the environment in which holistic treatment occurs and includes
all members of the treatment team in a positive physical setting, with interactions
among those who are hospitalized and activities that promote recovery.
The psychiatric mental health registered nurse provides, structures, and maintains safe,
therapeutic, recovery oriented environment collaboration with health care consumers,
families, and other health care clinicians.
Among other things milieu management includes orienting patients to their rights and
responsibilities. Milieu management also includes informing patients in a culturally
competent manner about the need for structure, maintenance of a safe environment,
and limits set on the unit.
The nurse selects activities (both individual and group) that meets the patient's physical
and mental health needs. The patient should always be maintained in the least restrictive
environment.
2). Mental health
Ans: Successful performance of mental functions, resulting in the ability to engage in
productive activities, enjoy fulfilling relationships, adapt to change, and cope with
adversity.
Mental health is the foundation of thinking, communication skills, learning, emotional
growth, resilience, and self-esteem throughout the life span.
It is a STATE OF WELL-BEING in which individuals are able to realize their abilities as well
as contribute to their community within the context of life stressors.
3). Mental illness
Ans: Actual diagnoses, gets in the way of obtaining mental health.
Medical conditions that affect a person's thinking, feeling, mood, ability to relate to
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, others, and daily functioning. Basically, mental illness can be seen as the result of flawed
biological, psychological, or social processes.
Fortunately mental illnesses are treatable, and individuals can experience symptom
relief, and complete cure in some cases, with treatment and support.
4). Maslow's hierarchy of needs
Ans: Needs are placed conceptually on a pyramid, with the most basic and important
needs on the lower level.
The higher levels, the more distinctly human needs, occupy the top sections of the
pyramid. According to Maslow, when lower level needs are met, higher level needs are
able to emerge.
**Physiological needs first, safety second
5). Physiological needs
Ans: Food, water, oxygen, elimination, rest, and sex
6). Safety needs
Ans: Security, protection, stability, structure, order, and limits.
7). Love and belonging needs
Ans: Affiliation, affectionate relationships, and love
8). Esteem needs
Ans: Self-esteem related to competency, achievement, and esteem from others.
9). Self-actualization needs
Ans: Becoming everything one is capable of.
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, 10). Self-transcendence
Ans: When a person experiences a sense of identity that transcends or extends
beyond the personal self.
11). The id
Ans: The primitive, pleasure-seeking part of our personalities that lurks in the
unconscious mind.
12). The ego
Ans: Our sense of self. (Also unconscious mind)
Acts as an intermediary between the id and the world by using ego defense
mechanisms, such as repression, denial, and rationalization.
13). The superego
Ans: Conscious mind.
Our conscience (our sense of what is right or wrong) and is greatly influenced by our
parents' or caregivers' moral and ethical stances.
14). Freud's contribution to mental health
Ans: Freud believed that personality development is based on stages. During these
stages, the id focuses on an erogenous zone of the body. These zones are oral, anal, and
phallic. Fixation through overindulgence or frustration results in pathologic conditions
and personality disorders. Freud's work has been criticized for a variety of reasons. One
of the harshest criticism stems from the concept of penis envy in which females suffer
from feelings of inferiority for not having male genitalia.
15). Freud - oral—birth to 1½ years
Ans: Pleasure-pain principle
Id, the instinctive and primitive mind, is dominant
Demanding, impulsive, irrational, asocial, selfish, trustful, omnipotent, and dependent
Primary thought processes
Unconscious instincts—source-energy-aim-object
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, Mouth—primary source of pleasure
Immediate release of tension/anxiety and immediate gratification through oral
gratification
Task—develop a sense of trust that needs will be met
16). Freud - anal—1½ to 3 years
Ans: Reality principle—postpone immediate discharge of energy and seek actual
object to satisfy needs
Learning to defer pleasure
Gaining satisfaction from tolerating some tension-mastering impulses
Focus on toilet training—retaining/letting go; power struggle
Ego development—functions of the ego include problem-solving skills, perception, ability
to mediate id impulses
Task—delay immediate gratification
17). Freud - phallic—3 to 7 years
Ans: Superego develops via incorporating moral values, ideals, and judgments of right
and wrong that are held by parents; superego is primarily unconscious and functions on
the reward and punishment principle (sexual identity attained via resolving oedipal
conflict)
Conflict differs for boy and girl masturbatory activity
Task—develop sexual identity through identification with same-sex parent
18). Freud - latency—7 to 12 years
Ans: Desexualization; libido diffused
Involved in learning social skills, exploring, building, collecting, accomplishing, and hero
worship
Peer group loyalty begins
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WITH CORRECT DETAILED AND VERIFIED
ANSWERS/A+ GRADE
1). Milieu therapy
Ans: Milieu refers to the environment in which holistic treatment occurs and includes
all members of the treatment team in a positive physical setting, with interactions
among those who are hospitalized and activities that promote recovery.
The psychiatric mental health registered nurse provides, structures, and maintains safe,
therapeutic, recovery oriented environment collaboration with health care consumers,
families, and other health care clinicians.
Among other things milieu management includes orienting patients to their rights and
responsibilities. Milieu management also includes informing patients in a culturally
competent manner about the need for structure, maintenance of a safe environment,
and limits set on the unit.
The nurse selects activities (both individual and group) that meets the patient's physical
and mental health needs. The patient should always be maintained in the least restrictive
environment.
2). Mental health
Ans: Successful performance of mental functions, resulting in the ability to engage in
productive activities, enjoy fulfilling relationships, adapt to change, and cope with
adversity.
Mental health is the foundation of thinking, communication skills, learning, emotional
growth, resilience, and self-esteem throughout the life span.
It is a STATE OF WELL-BEING in which individuals are able to realize their abilities as well
as contribute to their community within the context of life stressors.
3). Mental illness
Ans: Actual diagnoses, gets in the way of obtaining mental health.
Medical conditions that affect a person's thinking, feeling, mood, ability to relate to
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, others, and daily functioning. Basically, mental illness can be seen as the result of flawed
biological, psychological, or social processes.
Fortunately mental illnesses are treatable, and individuals can experience symptom
relief, and complete cure in some cases, with treatment and support.
4). Maslow's hierarchy of needs
Ans: Needs are placed conceptually on a pyramid, with the most basic and important
needs on the lower level.
The higher levels, the more distinctly human needs, occupy the top sections of the
pyramid. According to Maslow, when lower level needs are met, higher level needs are
able to emerge.
**Physiological needs first, safety second
5). Physiological needs
Ans: Food, water, oxygen, elimination, rest, and sex
6). Safety needs
Ans: Security, protection, stability, structure, order, and limits.
7). Love and belonging needs
Ans: Affiliation, affectionate relationships, and love
8). Esteem needs
Ans: Self-esteem related to competency, achievement, and esteem from others.
9). Self-actualization needs
Ans: Becoming everything one is capable of.
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, 10). Self-transcendence
Ans: When a person experiences a sense of identity that transcends or extends
beyond the personal self.
11). The id
Ans: The primitive, pleasure-seeking part of our personalities that lurks in the
unconscious mind.
12). The ego
Ans: Our sense of self. (Also unconscious mind)
Acts as an intermediary between the id and the world by using ego defense
mechanisms, such as repression, denial, and rationalization.
13). The superego
Ans: Conscious mind.
Our conscience (our sense of what is right or wrong) and is greatly influenced by our
parents' or caregivers' moral and ethical stances.
14). Freud's contribution to mental health
Ans: Freud believed that personality development is based on stages. During these
stages, the id focuses on an erogenous zone of the body. These zones are oral, anal, and
phallic. Fixation through overindulgence or frustration results in pathologic conditions
and personality disorders. Freud's work has been criticized for a variety of reasons. One
of the harshest criticism stems from the concept of penis envy in which females suffer
from feelings of inferiority for not having male genitalia.
15). Freud - oral—birth to 1½ years
Ans: Pleasure-pain principle
Id, the instinctive and primitive mind, is dominant
Demanding, impulsive, irrational, asocial, selfish, trustful, omnipotent, and dependent
Primary thought processes
Unconscious instincts—source-energy-aim-object
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, Mouth—primary source of pleasure
Immediate release of tension/anxiety and immediate gratification through oral
gratification
Task—develop a sense of trust that needs will be met
16). Freud - anal—1½ to 3 years
Ans: Reality principle—postpone immediate discharge of energy and seek actual
object to satisfy needs
Learning to defer pleasure
Gaining satisfaction from tolerating some tension-mastering impulses
Focus on toilet training—retaining/letting go; power struggle
Ego development—functions of the ego include problem-solving skills, perception, ability
to mediate id impulses
Task—delay immediate gratification
17). Freud - phallic—3 to 7 years
Ans: Superego develops via incorporating moral values, ideals, and judgments of right
and wrong that are held by parents; superego is primarily unconscious and functions on
the reward and punishment principle (sexual identity attained via resolving oedipal
conflict)
Conflict differs for boy and girl masturbatory activity
Task—develop sexual identity through identification with same-sex parent
18). Freud - latency—7 to 12 years
Ans: Desexualization; libido diffused
Involved in learning social skills, exploring, building, collecting, accomplishing, and hero
worship
Peer group loyalty begins
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